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From: zhuyj <zyjzyj2000@gmail.com>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: zhuyj <zyjzyj2000@gmail.com>, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Ext4:can not rm directories on 2.6.3x
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:24:19 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <513FF163.7080606@gmail.xom> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130312134229.GJ18595@thunk.org>

OK. Thanks a lot.
This bug can happen on Ubuntu 11.04,10.10 with kernel 2.6.3x.
Follow the above steps, this bug can be reproduced.

Anyone has the same experience?

On 03/12/2013 09:42 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 03:41:31PM +0800, zhuyj wrote:
>> If I use kernel>=3.0, this will not occur.
> Sounds like this is a problem in 2.6.39 that has since been fixed in
> newer kernels.
>
>> So is this is a bug?
> Sure looks like it's a bug.  :-)
>
> There are so many distributions and other old embedded systems, etc.,
> using older kernels that there's just no way that upstream developers
> can try to debug every single older kernel --- and 2.6.39 isn't even a
> kernel that is being supported by a volunteer as a long-term supported
> kernel.
>
> See http://www.kernel.org for a list of kernels which are supported as
> long-term kernels, and even then, please remember that unless fixes
> are automatically backported, or someone manually backports a fix that
> doesn't automatically apply to an older kernel, it's not going to
> happen.....
>
> Regards,
>
> 					- Ted
>
> P.S.  Your problem appears to be completely unrelated to the thread
> which you replied to.  This makes it hard for us to keep track of
> questions/bug reports which users submit.
>


  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-13  3:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-12  6:58 Inactive memory keep growing and how to release it? Lenky Gao
2013-03-12  7:41 ` a problem about ext4 zhuyj
2013-03-12  7:49   ` zhuyj
2013-03-12  8:13     ` zhuyj
2013-03-12 13:42   ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-03-13  3:24     ` zhuyj [this message]
2013-03-15  7:16       ` Ext4:can not rm directories on 2.6.3x zhuyj
2013-03-15 14:53         ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-03-15 14:56           ` Willy Tarreau
2013-03-15 14:59             ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-03-15 15:12           ` Paul Gortmaker
2013-03-12  8:37 ` Inactive memory keep growing and how to release it? Zheng Liu
2013-03-12  8:48   ` Lenky Gao
2013-03-14  8:00   ` Lenky Gao

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